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Callyson Grove maintains a diverse practice that encompasses a wide range of litigation matters, including medical malpractice, legal malpractice and employment claims. She has handled commercial litigation in international arbitrations before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution®, the international division of the American Arbitration Association and under UNCITRAL rules. Callyson's strong research and writing skills enable her to prepare persuasive motions and appellate briefs. She has authored briefs on behalf of appellees and appellants before the Appellate Court of Maryland (formerly the Maryland Court of Special Appeals), the D.C. Circuit, and the D.C. Court of Appeals.
With a strong work ethic and devotion to producing a quality product, Callyson includes among her priorities understanding her clients’ goals and legal options and obtaining the best result from that vantage point. She has experience litigating and settling cases throughout the country on behalf of national clients and regularly handles matters in a variety of venues throughout the District of Columbia and Maryland, such as administrative, trial and appellate cases before state and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.
Medical Malpractice
A substantial portion of Callyson's diverse practice consistently involves litigating medical malpractice cases on behalf of health care providers across all medical specialties. She has defended complex malpractice cases in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and she represents health care providers in disciplinary proceedings before their professional boards. Callyson is a skilled litigator with ample experience taking and defending depositions, arguing motions, and mediating and trying cases.
Callyson Grove maintains a diverse practice that encompasses a wide range of litigation matters, including medical malpractice, legal malpractice and employment claims. She has handled commercial litigation in international arbitrations before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution®, the international division of the American Arbitration Association and under UNCITRAL rules. Callyson's strong research and writing skills enable her to prepare persuasive motions and appellate briefs. She has authored briefs on behalf of appellees and appellants before the Appellate Court of Maryland (formerly the Maryland Court of Special Appeals), the D.C. Circuit, and the D.C. Court of Appeals.
With a strong work ethic and devotion to producing a quality product, Callyson includes among her priorities understanding her clients’ goals and legal options and obtaining the best result from that vantage point. She has experience litigating and settling cases throughout the country on behalf of national clients and regularly handles matters in a variety of venues throughout the District of Columbia and Maryland, such as administrative, trial and appellate cases before state and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.
Jodi Terranova (Partner-Washington, DC), co-chair of Wilson Elser’s Medical Malpractice & Health Care Practice, Callyson Grove (Partner-Washington, DC) and Giovanna Bonafede (Associate-McLean, VA) obtained a unanimous defense verdict in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria on behalf of a general surgeon and his employer, a medical group practice. The plaintiff alleged that our client breached the standard of care in performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy by failing to perform other surgical techniques when he was unable to identify anatomy, resulting in a transected common hepatic duct. Jodi, Callyson and Giovanna successfully argued that the plaintiff had distorted anatomy at the time of surgery due to inflammation and a rare genetic anomaly, causing the common hepatic duct to be in front of the infundibulum of the gallbladder, making the injury unavoidable. After a five-day trial and ten hours of deliberation, the jury of eight returned a unanimous verdict in favor of our client surgeon and his employer.
Jodi V. Terranova, Callyson T. Grove and Giovanna R. Bonafede